Could GameStop Stock Be the New Roaring ’20s Canary in the Coal Mine?

InvestorPlace2021-09-15

If you had to pick one publicly traded security to define Wall Street for 2021, likely most people will select GameStop(NYSE:GME). Heck, it wouldn’t surprise me if the voting was unanimous. Once left ...

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According to aHistory.compost:\n\n In August 1929, \n Ladies Home Journalpublished an article titled “Everybody Ought to Be Rich.”In it, businessman John J. Raskob told Americans that if they invested $15 in the stock market every month, in 20 years they could have $80,000 (over $1 million today). Raskob insisted that “almost anyone who is employed can do that if he tries.”\n\nOf course,History.comnoted that it was bad advice. “For wealthy, white Americans like Raskob, the “Roaring ‘20s” was a time of immense economic prosperity. Yet for most Americans, it wasn’t. Low-wage jobs paid an average of $25 a week for men and $18 for women. 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